Diver’s $100k find runs in the family
A US scuba diver has discovered a rare gold coin in 9m of water – the first to be recovered from Florida's 17th-century Spanish galleon shipwreck Nuestra de Atocha for 20 years. Read more...
Andrea Doria’s foghorn sounds again
The foghorn from the famed Andrea Doria shipwreck has been raised and restored, and will be sounded this afternoon (Sunday, July 25) in a livestreamed anniversary event at the New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven. Read more...
Five freedivers, 12 world records
No fewer than 12 world freediving records have been broken during the nine-day Vertical Blue international competition at Deans Blue Hole in the Bahamas, with some marks switching back and forth between competitors during the event. Read more...
Motivating Med divers for lionfish war
Targeted removals can suppress the growing number of invasive lionfish around protected Mediterranean coastlines, according to a new study – but only by combining culls by scuba divers with long-term monitoring. Read more...
Dive-boat sinks in Florida
Investigators have been trying to determine why a packed dive-boat sank suddenly off Florida’s Atlantic coast. Crews from nearby diving and fishing vessels rushed to the scene to pick up the Safari Diver’s 13 occupants when it went down on the afternoon of 18 July. Read more...
WIN! WIN! WIN! A TUSA TC1 Dive Computer worth £249
TUSA's new TC1 is a stylish wrist computer ideal for all divers as either a primary or back-up device. Read more...
Diving mayor had heart condition
Then-mayor of Cambridge Nigel Gawthrope, who died on a scuba diving holiday in South Africa as reported on Divernet in January 2019, had an undiagnosed heart condition. Read more...
Ancient shipwreck found off Egypt
A rare ancient galley has been discovered by underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio and his dive-team in the sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion, off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. Read more...
‘70% of divers contact the reef’
It might come as a surprise to scuba divers to hear that 70% “contact the reef” while under water and 36% are unaware of doing so, but so says UK charity Reef-World Foundation, which co-ordinates the UN Environment Programme’s Green Fins programme. Read more...
Divers help ID leopard shark hotspot
The existence of a key global hotspot and potential breeding area for leopard sharks has been revealed in Mozambique by the Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF). Its new study was produced in collaboration with Swansea University and volunteer body All Out Africa. Read more...